1: HEY BLOODY INFOSYS, just learn something from companies like wipro. no less then u and never fires the employees.
INDIA hates you.....i kno no one can say anything to you but everybody of you is going to get punished in some of the other way for doing all this just for money.
i am sure Abhijeet Mukherjee was no less then a champion of his field but u have been blinded by your position.
Beware, its not the day always, be reday to face the darkness of night......shame on INFOSYS

Posted by: guru - 12 May, 2009

2:Even these bastards sack people left and right saying performance reason, how can a 12 year performer suddenly become useless?
-Prabhat Das, DM

 PD, DM replied to: guru 
 post - 23 May, 2009

3: this is the sadest thing happening each and every year in infosys especially but the worst thing is that no body has ever bothered aboutr the same. life has no importance in infosys, what matters is the weight of their purse. i don't know how the authorities letting this happen. if one fails in exams then they must give the employee more chances and should examin the capability on some different grounds like his earlier performence, his performence in mock projects and his academic record and they may not pay or may not put them into project untill one improves but who cares. they just believe in kicking the employees even if they have worked day and night but have scored few marks less then their passing criteria. coming out with broken dreams and no hope outside, usually the less brave people ends up their lives. i just hate the corporate culture which has given the highest post to the money and forgotton that apart from the boundaries of the company,as soon as they step on road they are the same as a common man. making someone dependable on you and leading him/her weave dreams of good future and then kicking one out leads to such consequences. in my view the higher officials must be punished for such acts. I just hate infosys and other companies who play with precious lives this way.

Posted by: guru - 12 May, 2009

4: He is a victim of the corporate culture in India. We have a way of accusing innocent and disadvantaged individual all the time. When a company hires they do have rigorous procedures to check and verify his credentials and ability to do their job. Apart from that when the company goes down, they want someone to be fired and how they do it is impolite, cruel and insensitive. Young guys take it to their heart, cant blame them. Blame Infosys because nobody has given anybody/any company any right to accuse of being incapable. If they do not want someones services, simply fire them. do not go for all these PR stunts and say that these young engineers cant do their job. What Infosys is doing is accusing of a generation of incapable for what is their inability to make profit (yes, they do the lip services to big global companies and cant make a useful thing of their own, so how can they employ 100,000+ employees?)

Posted by: RFox - 10 May, 2009

5: Exams and all are meagre excuses...fact is plain and simple...just to market themselves they hired thousands of graduates(20k+ in a year for continuosly a few years) without even having a proper disaster management plan in place...and now when situation is out of control they take this way of laying off or so called exams..."POWERED BY INTELLECT,DRIVEN BY VALUES" is what they keep saying...gimme a break now...i guess rest of the firms are better in a way...atleast they dont always keep speaking bout values and stuff like that uselessly...In came RECESSION and all VALUES went out of the window ...

God bless abhijeet's family and his soul.

Posted by: WellWisher - 01 May, 2009

6: Sad Indeed.my 2 cents -- Don't get into IT just because everyone else is getting into it.I am not sure how good this poor fellow was in Programming .I for one could never make head or tails out of "C" language and pointers gave me nightmares.Also sitting in front of a PC for 8 hrs a days was not my cup of tea.I stuck to my civil engg field and only sat for related companies during campus placements.TCS took civil engineers by the dozen ( 42 people out of 50 )but i chose not to take that path.In hind sight i did well to take the road less traveled.Civil Engg is in great demand and there is a severe shortage of experienced engineers ( all thanks to IT ).Another point is that a person can shift into IT sector at any point in his career but a IT guy can not move into civil,mech or chemical engg sectors.the entry barrier is very high.

Posted by: jai - 22 Apr, 2009

7: He was definitely a poor minded guy who does not dare to face the reality of life, Even he was also knowing that his exam is not good then he have to be prepared for face the result .

Posted by: Ranjeet  - 21 Apr, 2009

8:Its easy to criticize people without knowing their mindset Ranjeet. A person takes an extreme step of suicide when he/she finds no other way out. Does it mean there is no other way out,there definitely is but having said that the same way is not known to them. They are of sane mind but that guy could not just get a way. I am a past infoscion- let me explain. When a person gets infy at least at my times it was a great achievement having again come from Bengal. Family friends everyone proud of you. You are a hero. Now suddenly when you fail in COMPRE exams you feel disgusted and think if it slides from your hand all the glory is lost.You keep your glory and choose to die in honor. Hope everyone understands. But does it mean its right, definitely not. Guys to whomever this recession has affected, do not boggle down under fake glory that you achieved. Its simply a handful of sand. Once in your hand, it slides away. Dont loose ur life for a company like Infosys, TCS, whatever. If you are chosen to come to this world you have been for a purpose. Believe in this. Create your own way and defy the recessionary trend.

 kankan Paul- Management Consultant replied to: Ranjeet  
 post - 22 Apr, 2009

9: Alas ! Infy & job r more imp. than life , this kid must be out of his mind . Its a tragic situation & unfortunate. These s/w companies put young chaps under Xtreame pressure , I wish someone sue these companies big time .

Posted by: ashwin - 21 Apr, 2009

10: One must think only one employer will provide us the job ...world is big enough .

and in this world somewhere something we will get , not this assignment some next assignment ..
why to take such things seriously and loose our precious life .

Posted by: prashant - 21 Apr, 2009

11: He's a coward! unable to face the turns in the life...
Guys, face the life with courage..Never lose hope at any point in ur lives.. that alone keeps u running.

My condolences for the poor chap's family..May his soul rest in INFY

Posted by: Well wisher - 21 Apr, 2009

12: Rest of Techies please - - Think differently. Ending the life is not the solution.

In our India is more than 60 percent of working group is self employed. And only Less than 40 Percent are employed in public and private sectors. The majority of people self employed in the market and they are happy those sector. -- India is self sustained great country compared to other side of world. Even if you are not techie also can lead the life.

Any Distress condition techie people are need to listen the parent’s word, Parents are always well-wisher and they give good alternatives and accept the situation. And they do not want to lose children’s any way.

To bring / look after one Kid from baby to Graduate person is not a simple task. So many year dedicated work and taking care of you. Whatever it may be feeding, sheltering, sharing the joy, providing day to today requirement of childhood / students life --- without looking his/ her financial status.

Think in constructive way.
Dear Techies - what did you given back to parents?
Requesting to ask question yourself on each starting of day. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . . . . . . . . . . . .
You need to look after your parents.

Posted by: Manjunath G.S Sr. D/n Eng. - 21 Apr, 2009

13: Guys, Don't just keep knocking the closed doors and end yourself. There are so many other areas we can shine. Look for open doors and go ahead. Who knows may be it can give more name and fame and of course money.

Posted by: Thiru - 21 Apr, 2009

14: It is really a sad thing that our young generation ends their valuable lives out of losing hope on failing in exams, losing jobs etc,(these are not small things to bear and but every failure opens 100's of opportunities, its just a little hope that helps to keep it running) and I can imagine the condition of his poor parents. I think if Abjeet would have thought about his parents condition a second time it would've saved him from doing such thing . I pray for his soul to rest in peace, and also pray to god to give his parents enough courage and help to overcome this situation.

Posted by: Vinu Felix - 21 Apr, 2009

15: Guys, Don't just keep knocking the closed doors and end yourself. There are so many other areas we can shine. Look for open doors and go ahead. Who knows may be it can give more name and fame and of course money.

Posted by: Thiru - 21 Apr, 2009

16: Rest of Techies please think differently. Ending the life is not the solution.

In our India still More than 60 percent of them are self employed. And only Less than 40 Percent only the people employed in public and private sectors.So majarity of people self employed in the market and they are happy those sector. -- India is self sustained great country compared to other side of world. Even if you are not techie also can lead the life.

Any Distress condition techie people, listen the parents words Parents are always well-wisher and they give good alternatives and accept. And they donot want to loose childerns any way.

To bring / look after one Kid from baby to Graduate person, is not a simple task. so many year dedicated work and taking care on you. what ever it may be feeding, sheltering, sharing the joy, providing requirement of baby without looking his/ her financial status.

Think in constructive way.

Posted by: Manjunath G.S - 21 Apr, 2009

17: the problem is the ego and self esteem a person creates around himself once they get the job in these companies. when they come to know they are going to be laid off, they do not have the guts to face the society where they showed them selves as the Kings and queens. Yougsters should not get carried away by fame, money and status, bcos that is what makes them to commit these disasterous act when they lose these status.

Posted by: Ajith Nair - 21 Apr, 2009

18:very well said mr ajith..i myself is a fresher techie goin to join wipro technologies..as u said,youngsters r mainly caried by d fame,money,status n infrastructure of dese so called IT companies.most of my classmates irrespective of dere branch, dreamt of doin jobs in IT cos including me.but d recession has come hard in dere way.in fact companies shud think employees as dere assets rather than dere liabilities..d companies used dese employees whenever dere was need n now kicking them off wen dey dont need them..slowly im coming to realise dat \'\'all dat glitters r not gold\'\'

 kaushik replied to: Ajith Nair 
 post - 26 Apr, 2009

19:well said mr ajith..

 kaushik replied to: Ajith Nair 
 post - 26 Apr, 2009

20:There was NRN once in campus. APJ was there too. young fresher techies asking questions and these leaders giving inspiring answers.NRN answered to one quesiont "...we will never make you feel shame that you work for us."

I hope he remembers that

 Infoscian replied to: Ajith Nair 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

21:Thats so true Mr.Ajith..

 Abhinab replied to: Ajith Nair 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

22: What a true way to sack people on rolls. Like in school and colleges they conduct test and keep people based on that
Whichever crook designed this innovative way to layoff people should clean his ass first. If cos think that they can layoff people by means of giving test, then iam sorry to say this mentality is filtered idiot. Companies using this tactics should be punished

Posted by: southie - 21 Apr, 2009

23: Sorry for the poor chap. atleast heif he had thinked again I dont think he would have gone to that end to end his precious life. May his spirit rest in peace and my condolences to his parents

Posted by: suresh - 21 Apr, 2009

24: First let me convey my tributes to Abjeet,Job is a temporary solution for a long term financial problems,still we have to achieve lot more in the life ,by starting our own ventures,by providing empolymeent to Rural and Poor people,by giving stablity income to our GDP and all.just because of losing a job we shouldn’t lose our emotion and Hope.be confident ,think very Big.we are highly qualified proffossoinals ,if we sack our self,if we die ourself,than just think of Comman man who stays in the village.just for one failure in the life,if we decide to end our life,if we decide to hangout our self’s,than think of Farmers ,who will Fail at each and every crop(yearly twice),but still they will keep a ray of hope for next crop.that is the life.sucide is not the Option ,keeping a Ray of Hope will take u to the New World.

Posted by: Balu Reddy - 20 Apr, 2009

25: Hi all,
Very sad about the guy who committed suicide. Onething i want to tell you all is "Dont loose your self confidence". In this world nothing is in our hands i.e., one can not live as he likes because there are lot of restrictions from parents, friends, relatives and society. If the software engineer thinks like this, how the "dialy labour should think if he didnt get the work for the day and in that day if his children and parents are waiting for the food he will bring by doing some work"? All the people who are living on the earth are not the software engineers or millionere's or lakhers. Where is the mental stability in human beings?

Posted by: suresh - 20 Apr, 2009

26: What an Idiot!

Posted by: Sharath kumar - 20 Apr, 2009

27:Mr. Sharath, ur this attitude can make ur kids commit suicide some day.....hope that day doesn't comes in ur life.......

 skd replied to: Sharath kumar 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

28:Mind your language Mr Sharath he was only 23 and he is no more and the time this thing happen his family was not with him may be he was alone helpless wanted some support

Don't have words to put

You know what Mr Sarath you r n arsehole

 Dipesh Rakshit replied to: Sharath kumar 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

29:@Sharath, please grow up. Common sense needed here.

 Praveen replied to: Sharath kumar 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

30:This is not the right way to comment on someone whoz nomore.Lets maintain some kind of decency while posting a comment on a public forum.What ever happened is really bad and I feel sorry for Abhijeet and his parents.May his spirit rest in peace and my condolences to his parents.

Mr.Sarath>Its very easy to comment like this but when u will face such kind of situation then probably you will understand how does it feel.I feel you should say sorry for making such a statement..not to for us but atleast for abhijeet's family.

 Abhinab replied to: Sharath kumar 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

31:i think we should not call Idiot, lets be more matired to empathise the situation rather than just speak just like that...

 MSR replied to: Sharath kumar 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

32:when the situation comes to you as it came to him then you will understand and that time u will be called as an "IDIOT"

 Deepak replied to: Sharath kumar 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

33: idiot is not such a derogatory word here.. althought our sympathies lie with the guy, his decision is definitely stupid.

 Anil Raj replied to:  Deepak 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

34: I second Anil. Being sorry for the death of the poor guy, no one can justify suicide. No matter how tough the going gets, we gotta draw the strength to sail through it. If ALL the 23-year-old--afraid-of-being-laid-off software engineers hanged themselves, would you still feel only sorry for them?

 Ganesh Prasannah  replied to: Anil Raj 
 post - 08 May, 2009

35: What Stress and Pressures are we taking about. What is failure and what is personal and What is the Govt.
All are inter-related. The news spreads like a forest fire that there is aglobal metdown and companies and organisations take this as an excuse and ask people to leave. You name the industry, and they have shown the door to their previously faithful Employees. They have shown no moral duties towards their employees or towards the growth of their country. Infosys Mr Narayana Murthy and his immediate family is today worth more than 3000 Crores. I am a great admirer of this pious man and he is really doing a great Job. Not only him Dr Vijay Mallya, Capt Gopinath,Shahrukh, Amitabh Bachchan, Our Politicians, even an MLA is worth crores of Rs. Even if all of these people who are Having assets worth hundreds of crores decide that they will contribute even 5% of it towards the contry which has helped them attain this status. We ar out and rocking in the global market.

But at this juncture when our country is going thru a turmoil is it not that we all should take a stand and promise ourselves that we will Help and NOT ASK ANY EMPLOYEE TO LEAVE. LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF THE SAME PEOPLE WE HAD GOT PROFITS AND TODAY WE SHOULD STICK BY THEM AND NOT LET THEM DOWN. LET IT BE A WIN WIN SITUATION. FOR SOMETIME TILL THINGS SETTLE DOWN. LET IT BE NO PROFIT NO LOSS.

GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY. I LOVE MY INDIA AND I AM PROUD THAT I AM AN INDIAN

Posted by: P Geetha - 20 Apr, 2009

36: It is very unfortunate for Mr. Abhijeet. Such an educated boy should not have done this kind of taking a decision of committing suicide. This job is not the end of life. I feel he has no good friends who can make him understand the downfalls in the life. It is part of the life. We cannot be perfect always, because we are humanbeings. He is very young and a number of opportunities are ahead. He could have waited to get a good job than this. I pray for his family to get healed the wounds of their hearts. Let God bless them with peace.

Posted by: SUJATHAN R NAIR - 20 Apr, 2009

37:Its very sad incident to me and all the IT industry people
those who are working see i want to mention one thing that's our life is more than precious than a job and we have laks
of company all over the world why we think to hang our self
we can job even after losing it but our live...not like that so think of it every one in the world i pray of for his family world is very big come act on that
krishna....

 krishna replied to: SUJATHAN R NAIR 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

38: Its really sad and shame on us,The news about abhijeet came but i know most of them which are facing bad side of life now.Let all pray for his soul.

It is time for Millonaire indians to raise and vote by giving support by contributing some percentage of there money so that every company will not do this layoff and stick to employees who had given the bread and butter for owners in past.

We indian citizens the master brains who work in large amount of rations in every MNC company in US.with out indians US cant do better in IT.

We have to raise this and publish in all blog sites and let all employees raisea voice

 satya replied to:  krishna 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

39: I like advice one thing to our young generation, first believe yourself we will not come for die in this world, If you want to live we need food, good shelter is more sufficient. we lose your job is not create a big problem for your food and shelter. We will wait patiently for good time to ask question to this world. Suicide is psychology problem, so be strong in mentally, Youngster need to face bigger problems easily than others. Please try to understand my friends. I pray for god those who have fearing for losing jobs.

Posted by: Suman - 20 Apr, 2009

40: Hi all
Its very pity in hearing this,as one of our friend ganesh said that our entire system has to be changed.Govt. is thinking only about imparting technical education.But in what way the satyam scandal owner Ramaraju has to be punished? He disturbed the entire system the loop holes are there in this govt. so we all should be unite and then only we can save the lives of ours.

Posted by: madan - 20 Apr, 2009

41: Lol. Stop making mountain out of a mole guys. He could'nt take it, he commited suicide. I have read about people commiting suicide about even lesser reasons.. Its all about a persons psychology & you frustoo's are using this to debate and bring even world politics in .. Like you all have to vent out your frustration on every thing that comes your way. I bet if i throw a coin.. Some idiot will come forward ..linking dollar/rupee prices to why i got a 'heads/tail'
.usually everything is a G.D excercise for you all.

Posted by: J.R Patel - 20 Apr, 2009

42: OMG these bloody IT corps are acting just like schools and coaching centers where students are put to immense performance pressure and some students eventually end up their life as they couldn't tollerate the pressure.

Posted by: Venkat - 20 Apr, 2009

43: Its a pity that we indian's does not have much emotional strength to withstand pressure or the ability to overcome the barriers that comes up in our life. Just take a minute to see the issues that's happening around the world.The iraqis lost their home, people in gaza are fighting for their life, due to recession millions have lost job around the world,srilankans are having their war against tamil rebels,somalian pirates are kidnapping merchant navy staffs, and in the midst of all this do we really think losing a job is the end of life. We have been honoured by our birth and assigned a time to serve this world, lets set all issues aside and serve our time well no matter what adverse conditions we have to face. So lets not pity others who couldn't make it but instead strengthen the weaker ones taking them by our shoulders and helping them to complete this race.

Posted by: Jazeel Abdul Jabbar - 20 Apr, 2009

44:Jazeel,
I respect your sentiment. I am not trying to put you down or anything, but I respectfully disagree with your premise. But think about your generalization again. You said " we Indians don't have muchemotional strength"....really? We are a billion people and all of us are weak because of this incident? Just like any other country, we have weak souls, strong souls and everything in between. What about the Auto driver, a day labour, a factory worker somewhere who is determined that he will work hard and give his kids a good education. A lot of Indians are very resilient people.
Thanks.

 All Iswell replied to: Jazeel Abdul Jabbar 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

45: I pity these Indians, who took away our (US/European) jobs (on the name of global economy) and now can not withstand a slightest pressure.

 Michael replied to:  All Iswell 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

46: Michael,
I understand your agony. However, you can take your pity back home. I pity you more for not being able to digest Bangalorization and trying to quote the same at the wrongest point of time. Dude get a life (atleast the life that Abhijeet has lost). Here all of us have conveyed our sympathy towards Abhijeet and abhorred him as a professional. We in India are not used to file lawsuits and claim someone's money for our negligence or incompetence. Nor are we habituated to accept incompetence and live with it only with a "better" salary in another company.
Sorry if that hurt. I have tried to be as polite as possible.

With all regards

 Rhoads  replied to: Michael 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

47: I pity on you Michael for being so narrow minded without thinking the big picture. You are very local minded as opposed to global minded which is the need of the hour in this global economy.

 Puru  replied to: Michael 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

48: God, please save our young generation. Give thier parents and society some sense to measure thier younger members ability by thier intrinsic values. Give them some sense that their children are human beings and not rats meant to go for racing. Give them some sense to istill the courage in the young minds to face success and failures as part of life. Ameen

Posted by: Dr. Venkatesh - 20 Apr, 2009

49: Any one who lost their jobs or who are under pressure of loosing their jobs, i tell them to remember only 4 points.

1. You are not born with a job.
2. You are not born for your current company.
3. Your current company is not the only place on earth.

There is a long way to go in life... apart from some silly stuff job, salary, promotion...

Posted by: Prasun - 20 Apr, 2009

50:Hi,

Putting myself in the same situation, gives me nighmares. I know that everyone is capable of earning and fullfilling atleast the basic requirements of self and family.
But we do not want to do a job that doesn\'t match our qualification and our social ring. We simple do not want to degrade ourself. we\'re not at all ready to work at the lower level. This is a problem. someone rightly said, that we aren\'t born with a job. easy to say, but very difficult to practice.
Hope, things get well and we\'re out of the situation soon.

 Ranjit replied to: Prasun 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

51: Sorry to hear this. I think the major point is the kind of stress we Indians take up. In fact, as soon as one clears their 10th standard, there are high expectations targeting IITs, RECs (NITs) and the next is landing in a high paid job with popular firms like TCS Infosys and others. This is the common thing among most of the middle class families.

Until we realize that job is just a part of life, these kinds of things will never come to an end. The perception of youth has to change a lot.

Posted by: Srikanth - 20 Apr, 2009

52: I believe for such things companies are not to be blamed. This was acase of non-performance nd it has nothing to do with the recession or the company. I believe we need to be more mature to handle sich situations.

Posted by: Sachin - 20 Apr, 2009

53: My God! What a Pity.

FEAR OF LOSING JOB. What can we call this syndrome.

It is the people who make the company great not the other way round.

This the aftermath of working in big company like INFY which is westernised and care a damn for its people.

Posted by: vishy - 20 Apr, 2009

54: Hi, Where r u heading towards? One guy writs in a comment that he rejected Satyam brides as the company was in-stable. And here a guy committed suicide afraid of losing job? Our education system should help to grow the emotional IQ also. It concentrates only in imparting technical knowledge.

Posted by: ganesh - 20 Apr, 2009

55:Hi Ganesh,

You are right. What is wrong with all these people. Losing a job is not the end of the world. Infact Many a time it opens u other great opportunities. The problem with most of us is we are living beyond our means. If we get a job with fancy salaries we are getting over confident & spending even more than that fancy salary. Result is at these kind of trying times, we are not able to cope up. My suggestion to all the folks is to save up atleast one year of monthly expense, put it in a Fixed deposit & don't touch it till you face the currrent case of sitaution where one moght lose his or her job. That you will not have to do crazy things like this.

Also please LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS. Don't go around buying those fancy cars & flats. Same thing happened here in the US & the Auto industry & the Real estate industry is in a very bad shape bacause of that.

Again:
"Losing a job is not the end of the world"

And:
"Let us not blame any company for this"


Regards,
Rajeev M

 Rajeev replied to: ganesh 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

56: Hi,
Rajeev i agree with all your suggestion,which you hv put its has to be published,due to present Global recission,its all because of gliter people are not looking for the 3 time food but running after the fame,which will definately take them in a wrong direction.

There are many many fields in this world is a larger place..to work. as a saying man dies but the work doesn't..
its not only IT-

i worked for many IT companies/others..& Job is always insecure-People must prefer for self employments rather than jobs'

 Mohd.Kazim replied to:  Rajeev 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

57: Hey guys,
Loyalty to your job is no virtue in today's global business.
Everyone is trying to get a better job, a better opportunity and/or to become a enteraprenuer!Also the companies are facing global challenges and therefore they have to be more efficient. Efficiency cannot be based on meiochre people. Thereforemany companies have HRD, to train and motivate people for upgrading them to do a bettr job.
However now in 21st century ,the olden ways of awarding and maintaining loyalty is no longer good for business, unless the employee is more productive.How can a business survive if they cannot reduce the cost of doing their business? How will they answer their shareholders?

It is very unfortunate and trajic that Abhijeet took this extreme step!
His employer did give every chance to prove himself, he did take four tests!

Therefore they are not to be blamed for giving everyone the same opportunity to prove their mettle.

When they conduct first telephone interview, the first question they ask did you get more than 85% in your tenth and 12th examination. A negative answer straightway disqualifies the candidate from employment in these big companies.

Therefore Abhijeet must have had a very good academic record to have joined this prestigious company.

So what happened is the responsibility of our society, of fallure of our education system and environment which does not prepare the young people to face the present volatile and everchanging dynamic world.

I am stating these out of my experience of five decades of corporate life, which included many ups and down.

Everyone should never succumb to self doubts.Create you own opptunities!

ARKOT

 ARKOT replied to:  Rajeev 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

58: I am agree with your point Losing a job is not the end of the world because If we lose the present job so we would be get the good job as well as the previous job.

 Pramod Solanki replied to:  Rajeev 
 post - 20 Apr, 2009

59: Its pure business when it comes to down sizing and cost cutting ,,, companies dont look at wht they loose ,, they only see what they gain.... Companies hiring freshers should make the recruitment more stringent so as to make sure that they have recruited the best. In the past 3-4 years

 vivek  replied to: Pramod Solanki 
 post - 21 Apr, 2009

60: I too was eager to join Infosys as a fresher but after coming to Infosys, I repented.

Reason:

1) Infosys is the software company with the highest attrition rate, this shows work dissatisfaction. many people leave so thats why they always keep recruiting freshers.



2) Infy Banaglore and Hyderabad have good managers and good projects and so the work culture is nice but all the other offices of Infosys at Chennai, Trivandram are not good places to work because of lack of projects ( people on bench for more than 3 onths), and the managers are very mean and not good team players.


3) It is literally a modern sweatshop where we have to work atleast 10 hrs per day to be deemed as an efficient employee, too much of stress. The Mysore training is so STRESSFUL, they squeeze a 1 year MS-IT degree syllabus in just 3 months training program, so you can imagine the stress we go though.
IT IS NOT WORTH IT GOING THRU ALL THIS STRESS AND UNHAPPINESS FOR A BRAND NAME CALLED 'Infosys'. It is better to join in someother sw company for same or higher salary that gives us a better work/family/life balance.


4) Our talents do not get recognition at Infosys office. we jus have to do same routine work which boss tells us.



Overall it is just a satisfactory company for work, Infosys has lost its class and it is just piggy backing on the fame of Mr.NR Narayanmoorthy. Infosys, on its own, is not a nice place to work.

Infy used to be good in the early 1990's but after year 2000, it has gone down a lot and is not a cool company to work anymore.

Regards,
Ex-Infoscion with two years service there, Chennai

Posted by: ex-infoscion - 19 Dec, 2009